Link: www.widowconnection.com
Widow Connection is a website of encouragement, information, and comprehensive resources. Topics from finances, family, and friendships, to emotions such as grief, anger, and loneliness are here for you. We share our stories, advocacy resources and much more.
Why is Widow Connection important? Consider these facts:
- 800,000 women become widows every year in the United States.
- Our friendship network shrinks by 75%.
- Financially, most widows experience decline and many experience surprises.
- Our financial need declines by 20% However, our income declines by 33%.
- Our average age is 52.
- Emotions of grief, anger, and loneliness intensify.
- 60% of widows experience significant illness in the first year.
- Clinical depression is the most common illness.
- After one year 50% no longer attend the church they attended with their husbands.
- Our family tree rearranges itself often with surprises.
(Taken from the Fast Facts page.)
This website was recommended to Linda Page, the Connections Director here at the Evangelical Free Church of Crystal Lake. She passed it along to us, and now we're sharing it with you. Please let us know in the comments what you think of the site!
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